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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Klingenschmitt: Obama to Kill Elderly People

We’re used to Gordon Klingenschmitt saying crazy, paranoid things. This is, after all, the man who claims he can turn gay people straight by casting out demons from their bodies. Here’s his latest: Obamacare is going to “exterminate the elderly, systematically.”

Euthanasia is coming from Obamacare. He already de-funded Medicare Advantage by 800 Billion dollars, taking care away from the elderly to pay young people who refuse to work. Democrats see cost savings by eliminating the red line above. Federal bureaucrats will enforce Obamacare to exterminate the elderly, systematically. We must take a stand.

And by “take a stand,” of course, he means “send me your money.” I report on so much of this stuff that I almost begin to have some weird admiration for the ability of some wingnuts to invent new paranoid conspiracy theories. It seems we are forever just this close to the most horrifying future imaginable, yet that future never comes. I’ll make a prediction: Right wingers will continue to make up shit like this and the fact that their dystopic predictions never actually happen will do nothing to dissuade either them or their followers. Death and taxes are not the only certainties in life.

I think that euthanizing the elderly would be a waste of resources. We should sell licenses and hunt them! Since I am approaching my 60s (kicking and screaming) it would give me a chance to go with dignity. Added bonus, it would give me a opportunity to maybe take some of you young whippersnappers with me. I may be old(er) but I’m also stupid.

Funny you should write this. I’ve been troubled recently, actually since Dubya was re-elected, about what is different about those people we categorize as right-wing. I’ve come to the conclusion that the right wing is comprised primarily of people who like to make shit up.

What I want to know is how old you have to to get offed and is Klingenschmitt old enough?

I would lobby to get the age lowered to his age and then he will stop making shit up.
I like the hunting idea, or sneaking up behind them on the street and chopping their heads off.
I’m 63. I hope I can get an exemption.